"Mature as he was, she might yet be able
to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect
the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless
fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have
never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the
highest curve, glowing against the gray, sober against the fire."

- From chapter 22, Howards End (1910)

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